Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — British Monarch's Position. [ARTICLE]

British Monarch's Position.

Great Britain has no document which may be regarded as a constitution. Instead of a paper constitution there exists a mass of precedents and conventions which serve, similar needs with, greater flexibility. No matter upon what the thing may be based, the royal power of the monarch is not absolute. As executive he is the nominal-, administrator of the, .decrees of parliament, the representative body of the lords spiritual, the lords temporal omtnnans. —i